This is a self-portrait of an elderly feminist dressed in hand-me-down clothes photographed in the style of Dorothea Lange
“There might’ve been a few that could’ve you know because I’ve been attacked by one I know what it means to have someone come at me with their hands like this ready to get at my face because some of them had come all the way from Mexico and El Salvador and spent three months traveling and some had done that one woman from Guatemala had done that three times and brought her whole family up she had been married and the guy was a drunk so she decided to make for herself a life and she she was picked up by border agents once but uh another woman who made her way it took her months and when she came she had this child and to talk about what people will do to try to better their life but here was this woman she would hold this baby and this little girl would reach into her blouse and try to nurse because she was so you know and she had this big pot belly full of parasites and the hair streaked with brown you know right away she was suffering such malnutrition so so I wou